No matter what the next business will be there is no way it will be able to keep up with that amount of rent. St Marks is not high end retail (yet) and until that day it will be a challenge for anyone to make that rent each month.

I am tired of vanilla being used as metonym for plainness. Vanilla is a distinct flavor you motherfuckers and a damn good one. It is one of the greatest flavors God has put on this damned earth. There is nothing default about vanilla.

Raphy Toledano eh? These rents are ridiculous. To not even make a profit you need to sell hundreds of dollars of goods a day to cover rent and one employee, how you specifically factor in what inventory or good you are providing? Could be closer to $750+ in sales a day.

Voters need to push for any candidate to finally embrace and enact the SBSJA.

The UCS (Union of Chocolate Supremacists) notes with pleasure any put-downs of vanilla, and notes with displeasure the passing of DF Mavens near this space, as it was one of many necessary chocolate havens.

Toledano is an doucher. He took over my bldg in the E.V. (I no longer live there--my choice after 24 years) and is taking over the neighborhood http://evgrieve.com/2015/08/report-uncle-suing-nephew-broker.html?m=1

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